Category Archives: Palm Beach

Palm Beach Ne’er-Do-Well 2008

April 16, 2025 – 7:33 am

Many of my female friends laughed upon hearing about my summer job of dog walker on Palm Beach. “What’s so funny?” “We know what’s going to happen.” Each women was possessed by a singular vision. “You’re going to fleece some heiress.” “Fleece?” Both my wife and mistress had green-lighted any multi-zero gigoloing with turtle-fleshed heiresses […]

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Our Lady Of Palm Beach June 2008

April 15, 2025 – 8:08 am

I went for a swim this afternoon. Normally no one is on the beach next to Donald Trump’s estate. Today an older woman was sitting on a blanket. Her empire of plastic bags attested to a lack of property. I said hello. She said nothing, as if she feared I would call the police. She […]

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Kitten Bar / West Palm Beach 2008

April 15, 2025 – 4:59 am

Coming back from the Dixie Supermarket In West Palm Beach I spotted this bar across the inter-coastal waterway. the Kitten Club. Happy hours 2 for 1 until 7pm. I decided to check it out. The time was 6:30. Inside the small bar a few dancers nursed water. The girls were pigpen specials. They all outweighed […]

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Florida Drifter – January 1975 – Journal Entry

March 5, 2024 – 7:52 am

1975
Winter
 Past midnight
 A Palm Beach golf course
 The 17th green
 Palm trees silhouettes Against a starry balmy night.
 I fall asleep. On a sheet On the green grass. Before dawn
 Rain drops
 Not rain
 Green sprinklers
 To the west night
 To the east the sun
 Flamingoes surrounded the green
 Pink flamingoes A hot swampy […]

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If Bruce Came to My House

June 13, 2021 – 7:17 am

In April 2008 I lived nowhere. My apartment in the East Village had been taken over by the faceless management company. I lived with my wife and daughter in Pattaya until this April. We had good times and bad times. It was home, then again I considered anyplace home once you buy a roll of […]

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